8 or 10 States Will Need Their Guard Troops This Week. Where Are They?

[ThomWV]

States from Florida to Texas and then up past Tennessee and probably Pennsylvania will likely suffer serious damage in the next 3 days. Flooding can be expected far to the north as a result of the rains that are coming even after this one drops down below hurricane strength. Normally the Governors would require the services of their state's Guard troops to aid tremendously in the cleanup and in fact to secure the peace in the immediate aftermath. Where will those good Guardsmen and women and our Reservists be when they are needed at home?

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. This will be interesting to compare with previous manpower needs

Hopefully, there will be adequate numbers available.

[SouthernDem2004]

2. Sigh, not every unit in every state is deployed. There are still

Guardsmen in every state. My state, which is going to be hit extremely hard, still has about 1/3 of out Guardsmen still here. Including me... The states around us are the same.

Every Guardsmen is not deployed.

[ThomWV]

3. Only 2/3rds Deployed?

And did those who went take the heavy equipment with them? I'm wondering how many miles of roads have been cleared of debris by Guard dozers and how many fallen buildings cleard by Guard front end loaders. How many Guards-men and women have wielded chain saws and shovels in support of their own communitys who won't be there this time? If its two thirds of them gone and their equipment with them then it is far too many and blame for that can rest on only one set of shoulders. It is that son of a bitch in Texas who has left our country underprepared for catastrophe - him and his robotic Party. Place the blame exactly where it belongs - on a Republican President and a Republican Congress. The storm was inevidible, but any competent Administration would not have sapped the resources of the wealthiest country on earth to the point of being ill prepared as we will be shown to be in the next few days.

Sorry .... rant over.

[SouthernDem2004]

4. Nothing wrong with a rant. :)

I disagree with not enough Guardsmen or equipment but fully support rants. :)